Google Updates AI Overviews With How To Show Web Only Results & How To Give Feedback

Google has up to date its help documentation page on AI Overviews to inform searchers the best way to show only web results in its search outcomes (not present AI Overviews, movies, picture, and so on), plus the best way to give suggestions on the AI Overviews Google gives. This clearly comes based mostly on the backlash Google has acquired on a few of these AI Overviews.

When you evaluate the help documentation web page immediately to the old one, you will note Google added two sections. Listed below are the 2 sections Google added:

Present solely net hyperlinks in Google Search

AI Overviews are a core Google Search function, like knowledge panels. Options can’t be turned off. Nevertheless, you possibly can choose the Web filter after you carry out a search. This filter shows solely text-based hyperlinks with out options like AI Overviews.

Give suggestions

When you get an AI Overview that you simply really feel is unsafe, not useful, inaccurate, or unhealthy for every other motive, you possibly can tell us by submitting suggestions. Your suggestions will assist this expertise enhance.

1. On the prime proper of the overview, click on Menu .  
2. Faucet Suggestions.  
3. Choose the aspect of the AI overview your suggestions is about.  
4. Choose the suggestions class. 
5. Non-obligatory: Add a description.
6. Click on Ship.

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This is sensible based mostly on all of the backlash not too long ago about AI overviews and the way simple it’s to find bad AI Overviews. Listed below are a few of the articles from the weekend on this:

• Google AI Overviews under fire for giving dangerous and wrong answers, Search Engine Land
• Glue pizza and eat rocks: Google AI search errors go viral, BBC
• “Google is dead.” Google’s desperate bid to chase Microsoft’s search AI has led to it recommending eating rocks, Home windows Central
• For some reason, Google lets AI “answer” medical questions in “Search”, The Decoder
• Glue on pizza? Google’s AI Overview shares wacky answers, Silicon Republic
• Google AI makes string of errors after relying on joke websites, Telegraph
• Google AI Overview Results Spread Conspiracy Theories, Pizza Glue Recipe, Rolling Stone
• Google AI Overviews keep making mistakes in ‘isolated examples’, 9to5Google
• Google AI Overviews Search Errors Cause Furor Online, New York Occasions
• Google criticized as AI Overview makes errors, like saying President Obama is Muslim, CNBC
• Google Is Playing a Dangerous Game With AI Search, The Atlantic
• Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza, The Verge
• Google says the ‘vast majority’ of AI Overviews are good, 9to5Google
• Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination, Gizmodo
• Google’s AI Overviews Being Laughed at by CEO of Perplexity, Enterprise Insider
• Google’s AI search tool produces flubs and fabrications, QZ
• Google’s AI faces social media mockery after viral errors, NBC Information
• Google’s AI Keeps Hallucinating. Does Anyone Care?, Bloomberg
• Google’s AI Overview Appears To Produce Misleading Answers, Forbes
• Google’s AI search tool tells users to ‘eat rocks’ for your health, Monetary Occasions (Sub)
• Shut it down: Google’s AI search results are beyond terrible, Android Authority
• The Reason That Google’s AI Suggests Using Glue on Pizza Shows a Deep Flaw With Tech Companies’ AI Obsession, Futurism
• What Is Google’s AI Overviews, and Why Is It Getting Things Wrong?, CNET
• Why Google’s AI search might recommend you mix glue into your pizza, Washington Submit
• 17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web, Tom’s {Hardware}
• Google is in damage control mode following AI Overviews fiasco, Android Police
• Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search, The Verge
• Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage, Futurism
• Can you trust Google AI search results? The internet is unconvinced., Mashable
• In our tests Google’s AI Overviews were faster, more bizarre, and sometimes just fine, Mashable
• Google’s ‘AI Overviews’ advises adding glue to pizza sauce, lists ‘health benefits’ of tobacco for tweens, NY Submit
• Users Report Google’s AI Overview Thinks Tons of Fictional Characters Are Gay, Them
• What are Google’s AI Overviews good for?, TechCrunch

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